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Congratulations to Adam Poliak and Elana Stroud, two undergrad CS students, who have been selected for one of the premier fellowships in technology: the KPCB Fellows Program (http://kpcbfellows.com/). They are part of the < 3% of applicants selected for the program and featured on the ‘meet the fellows’ webpage.

A Johns Hopkins computer scientist is part of a team of researchers that has developed a new way to understand vaccine refusal by studying an unlikely resource: Twitter. The researchers will combine Twitter analyses with traditional survey techniques to study why people refuse vaccines and how these reasons vary among communities. The focus on vaccination […]

Dr. Avi Rubin has been named the keynote speaker of the 2015 AMIA Annual Symposium. Dr. Rubin’s talk will focus on the vulnerability of medical devices and the systems that hold electronic health records. The meeting will be held in November 2015 in San Francisco, CA.

CS In The News

Technical.ly Baltimore reported that the most recent edition of Johns Hopkins’ hackathon, called “HopHacks,” attracted more than 160 students, who produced 31 projects over the 36-hour event. Participants traveled to Baltimore from Georgetown, Stanford, University of Pennsylvania, University of Delaware, SUNY Stony Brook and Penn State, as well as from other colleges in Maryland. Read […]